Match the persons linked with art in colonial Bengal in List-I with the descriptions in List-II.
| List-I (Person) | List-II (Description) |
| A. Gaganendranath Tagore | I. Called Bengal School regressive |
| B. Abanindranath Tagore | II. Woodcuts for Bengali primers |
| C. Benoy Sarkar | III. Caricatures of rich Bengalis |
| D. Nandalal Bose | IV. Main artist and creator of the journal Indian Society of Oriental Art |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
| List-I | List-II | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Gaganendranath Tagore | (III) Made caricatures of rich Bengalis following the European style of living | Besides his Cubist paintings, he made caricatures that made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following European ways. |
| (B) Abanindranath Tagore | (IV) Main artist and creator of the journal Indian Society of Oriental Art | He created this journal to make modern Indians aware that they could benefit from their rich past in art. |
| (C) Benoy Sarkar | (I) Called the Oriental Bengal School of Art regressive and anti-modern | This Bengali intellectual sided with the anglicists in his article ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’. |
| (D) Nandalal Bose | (II) Illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts | He illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas. |
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Abanindranath Tagore and E. B. Havell …To create awareness that modern Indians could benefit from this rich past, Abanindranath was the main artist and creator of an important journal, Indian Society of Oriental Art.…” “Shantiniketan — Early modernism Nandalal Bose, a student of Abanindranath Tagore, was invited by poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore to head the painting department in the newly established Kala Bhavana. …He also illustrated primers in Bengali with woodcuts and understood the role of art in teaching new ideas.…” “Pan-Asianism and Modernism …It is in the paintings by Gaganendranath Tagore, brother of Abanindranath Tagore, that the influence of modern western style of paintings can be clearly seen. …Besides, he was deeply interested in making caricatures, in which he often made fun of rich Bengalis blindly following the European style of living.” “Different Concepts of Modernism: Western and Indian …Take the case of the Bengali intellectual, Benoy Sarkar, who sided with the anglicists and considered modernism that was growing in Europe as authentic in an article, ‘The Futurism of Young Asia’. For him, the Oriental Bengal School of Art was regressive and anti-modern.” |